%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \Chapter{Installation} \atindex{Nilmat package}{@Nilmat package} The Package \package{Nilmat} is a {\GAP} code only package and requires no external binaries. Once \package{Nilmat} is loaded, calls to the {\GAP} functions `IsNilpotent', `IsNilpotentGroup', `SylowSubgroup', and `SylowSystem' for subgroups of $GL(n,q)$, and calls to `IsNilpotent', `IsNilpotentGroup', and `IsFinite' for subgroups of $GL(n,\Q)$, automatically switch to corresponding functions %(e.g. `IsNilpotentMatGroup') from \package{Nilmat}. Thus \package{Nilmat} should be disabled if one wishes to use the former {\GAP} functions for matrix groups over $GF(q)$ or $\Q$. For testing nilpotency and finiteness over $\Q$, the {\GAP} package \package{Polenta} is also required. Note that `Nilmat' does not use functions from \package{Polenta} which depend on `KASH'. Hence to use \package{Nilmat}, `KASH' installation is not required, and all \package{Nilmat} functions run under both Windows and Linux. If your version of {\GAP} is earlier than {\GAP} 4.4.10, then to use some \package{Nilmat} facilities such as the library of primitive nilpotent subgroups of $GL(n,q)$, `MaximalAbsolutelyIrreducibleNilpotentMatGroup', and `ReducibleNilpotentMatGroup', you will need updates of the files `ffeconway.gi' and `ffe.gi'. These updated files incorporate relevant bugfixes, and are included in the \package{Nilmat} directory `etc'. Simply replace the old versions of `ffeconway.gi' and `ffe.gi' in the directory `lib' of {\sf GAP} by the updated ones. Then start {\sf GAP} with options `-A -N', and type `CreateCompletionFiles()'. After carrying out these steps, quit {\GAP} and then restart.